Science

During a meeting of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the discussion turned to ‘killer robots’. Considering killer drones have been used to kill thousands already, the UN believes the next step will be completely autonomous machines.

Something I just learned about which I thought was pretty cool. The last man on the surface of the moon, Eugene Cernan, wrote his daughter’s initials on the surface of the moon.

The days of crying over cut onions may be over. In Japan they have developed a tear-free onion. The substance that is emitted from an onion that makes you cry has been isolated and removed.

The Mars rover has been on the red planet for 11 years and this past Tuesday it ran a marathon. It traveled 26.2 miles on the surface of Mars becoming the first human creation to do so.

When you work hard all day, you come to relax and you may have a cocktail. Astronauts work hard all day and why shouldn’t they relax with a cocktail too?

Mars One, the project to send four people to mars on a one trip, has narrowed their selection down to 100. They started with 200,000 applicants and are now down to 50 women and 50 men.

The University of Vermont did a study on the happiest languages in the world. They rated words in various languages like: sad, happy, laughter, food, truck, greed and terrorist. They asked people to rate the sound of the words on a scale from 1 to 9.

Caribou native Jessica Meir is part of the 21st NASA astronaut class and is hoping to advance from candidate to astronaut. Meir says since she was in first grade her dream was to go into space.

This is a hysterical story.  2 divers are were trying to get pictures of a sperm whale.  They were wearing just a mask and snorkel, because the bubbles from a scuba tank are known to frighten whales.  While they were swimming around the giant whale, as a defense mechanism... because it was clearly getting frustrated, the whale released a giant poonado.

Turning the fiction of a movie into reality, Nike will introduce the self-tying tennis shoe. The shoes where seen in Back to the Future ll worn by Marty McFly.

According to research from Canada beavers may be a contributor to global warming. We have heard about methane from cows being a big cause of global warming but it seems the same problem is coming from beavers.

NASA has just discovered a protective radiation field around the earth the Van Allen radiation belts. It’s named after the twin Van Allen space probes than made the find. in 1958.

A new study about life on other planets suggests pollution may be the key in finding alien civilizations. This would be a new approach to finding extraterrestrial life by studying the atmospheres of planets.

Scientists say, the water we are drinking today, dates to more than 4.5 billion years ago. Water molecules that make up drinking water on Earth are older than the solar system.

Everyone dreams and there are a lot of triggers that make people dream differently. Science has discovered the longer you sleep, the weirder your dreams become. As the night goes on, from early to late night, dreams become more bizarre.

It has been thought that interaction with humans contributed to chimpanzees have a mean streak in them. A new study refutes that claim saying chimps are natural born killers and have a mean streak born in them.